Six months after scrapping their own seawater desalination plant project, Corpus Christi City Council voted Tuesday to consider an agreement with a private company to purchase water from its desalination plant to help stave off an impending water emergency. The …

Marsh names Zafiriadis Leader of new Service Delivery Practice, US and Canada, Marsh Risk Marsh, headquartered in New York City, appointed Katrina Zafiriadis as leader of its newly established service delivery practice (SDP), U.S. and Canada, Marsh Risk. Based in …

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, retracted a nearly five-decade-old paper extolling the safety of talc, the main ingredient in Johnson & Johnson’s iconic baby powder that fueled tens of thousands of lawsuits against the company after …

Major online betting platforms and the National Football League (NFL) are facing a product liability lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging that their live in-game microbetting product is an “inherently dangerous product designed to maximize betting behavior that leads to addiction.” The …

Meta Platforms Inc. is paying for the construction of seven new natural gas-fired plants to fuel its most power-hungry data center, increasing its reliance on fossil fuels amid a fast-moving artificial intelligence race. The company reached a new agreement with …

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines for two Georgia employers for failing to address safety violations that had exposed workers to noise and silica dust, which can cause severe respiratory illness. After a follow-up inspection, OSHA …

Georgia wants to lower income taxes. Some of the world’s biggest companies are standing in the way. A state Senate bill that would all but exempt many lower- and middle-income earners from state income tax is stalling in the Georgia …

The worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades has swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud. Authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, …

The US Senate passed legislation early Friday to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, forging a path to end a lengthy partial government shutdown that snarled airport security and threatened to ripple through an economy already roiled by …

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would again extend the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants, after Tehran had earlier rejected a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the fighting …

The role of Israel’s hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime. Hundreds of millions of cameras have been installed above shops, in …

The US warned that Iran-backed Houthi militants could start firing on vessels in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait after Tehran raised the possibility of extending barriers to global shipping during the ongoing war. The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration issued …

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a US insurance program meant to boost shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will begin soon, a move that may help revive flows of much of the world’s oil and gas supplies. Bessent’s predictions, delivered …

The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy. Fighting has all but halted oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway …

Ex-hedge fund boss Crispin Odey cornered a female receptionist after an alcohol-fueled lunch and told her “I could attack you now,” according to a diary entry by the staffer revealed at a London court on Tuesday. When she verbally resisted …

A property insurer is on solid ground in applying depreciation to actual cash value, as long as the policy makes that plan clear, a federal appeals court said in shooting down a proposed class-action lawsuit against Cincinnati Casualty Co. The …

An anti-vaccine group aligned with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is petitioning him to vastly broaden a federal list to include more than 300 injuries it says are linked to immunizations, and has threatened to sue if he …

Coastal-focused homeowners and flood insurance broker ShoreOne Insurance Managers, Inc. has been acquired by Totalis Program Underwriters, a New York specialty insurance platform that is part of NFP, an Aon company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, BrightShore …

The NCAA filed a complaint in federal court last week seeking an emergency restraining order to stop online sportsbook DraftKings from using registered trademarks associated with the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The complaint for trademark infringement was filed …

Melody Gray joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group. Gray is based in Portland, Oregon, and will design and deliver a range of employee benefits solutions to a client base throughout the Pacific Northwest and …